out tomorrow. look at this distance here. when you re talking about flying, 1500 miles from the nearest city, perth, all the way out there to the search zone. that is about like flying from new york city to denver, then doing a four-hour search the denver, and then flying all the way back to new york city, and you never get time to put wheels down. crew members have been scanning the water and so fare they haven t seen anything. obviously the tragedy that goes along with it, but the makings of the aircraft itself, the two large pieces are part of the plane, what happens to the seats and other smaller debris. would that be in the area as well? potentially if this plane did
attracted. all of this radar they re getting now or all of the tracks they re looking at now are primary returns. that doesn t include the identification of the plane. so this is there s a great deal of art in the interpretation of radar tracks as opposed to just turn on the machine and take a look. this is extraordinarily challenging. lea just reported on the communications that the engines send back, whether they subscribe to the service or not is another matter. but wouldn t those transmissions be of assistance? absolutely. air francisco 447, there was a burst of, i think, 14 of these kinds of data dumps from the engine, from the aircraft itself, and at the very least it told investigators that there was something terrible going on and challenging going on in this aircraft during the final moments. so if there were these tell
to the victim from the air. we re going to have to actually get fairly close and try to toss this ring out somewhere where he could get ahold of it. i knew our biggest problem was the rotor wash from the aircraft itself, the wind speed. and i was afraid we were going to knock him over. but they re willing to give it a shot. we re probably only about a foot or two off the water. we tried to get in close. i was trying to get our side of the aircraft in close to him so he could throw the gentleman the ring. and as soon as we got that rotor wash next to him, we could see the guy starting to stumble. i was looking right at him, and he got a little disoriented, and then he got wobbly, and then he fell. seeing his head go under, i cringed and closed my eyes a little bit and said a little prayer and said, oh, boy, he s gone. can rescuers get to the man in time? the danger level increased 100%. what was a difficult rescue is about to get even tougher. his legs went right ove
highway. there could have been a real disaster. they avoided a real disaster and good testament to the aircraft and good technology we ve got in the air right now. it is a venerable aircraft, been in the air for many years. modern version good brake, spoilers and reverse that saved that aircraft. we have a graphic of how close it was. you can see where the highway is there. where the plane was coming. in the taney county airport. if it would have gone a few hundred more feet with that short runway, those passengers could have been in deep trouble, especially if it went over that cliff, if you will. if you were leading this investigation, what are some of the questions you would ask? i ll take a look at some of the human factors in this particular event such as the duty time of the pilots, how long had they been on duty, when was there last training, what was the last vsh waisual approa they may have done at an airport. also look at the weather conditions. also take a look at the
try to toss this ring out somewhere where he could get ahold of it. i knew our biggest problem was the rotor wash from the aircraft itself, the wind speed. and i was afraid we were going to knock him over. but they re willing to give it a shot. we re probably only about a foot or two off the water. we tried to get in close. i was trying to get our side of the aircraft in close to him so he could throw the gentleman the ring. and as soon as we got that rotor wash next to him, we could see the guy starting to stumble. i was looking right at him, and he got a little disoriented, and then he got wobbly, and then he fell. seeing his head go under, i cringed and closed my eyes a little bit and said a little prayer and said, oh, boy, he s gone. can rescuers get to the man in time? the danger level increased 100%. what was a difficult rescue is about to get even tougher. his legs went right over the brink. when caught on camera: sinister, strange, shocking returns.